Institutional Roadblocks to Human Rights Mainstreaming in the FAO - A Tale of Silo Culture in the United Nations System

Carolin Anthes investigates how and why the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) struggles with systematically integrating a right to food approach in its operations. She analyzes multi-dimensional institutional roadblocks that prevent human rights from being fully mainstreamed. These barriers are shaped by a powerful state of fragmentation and disconnection: a silo culture. The book also offers valuable insights which go beyond the FAO and suggests a fairly unconventional avenue for systemic organizational change in (international) public administrations.

List of contents

Opening up and zooming in: The case of the FAO.- Methodological toolbox: Grounded theory, multi-sited ethnography, and discourse analysis.- Institutional roadblocks to mainstreaming the right to food in the FAO.- Nesting the analytical results within relevant academic debates.- Towards awareness-based systemic change in IOs.

About the author

Dr. Carolin Anthes is an associate fellow at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. She previously served as a consultant in the FAO Right to Food Team in Rome and also advised the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).

Product details

• Authors: Carolin Anthes
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9783658277581
• ISBN: 978-3-658-27758-1
• No. of pages: 337
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 20 mm x 216 mm
• Weight: 464 g
• Illustrations: XXII, 337 p. 1 illus.
• Series: Studien des Leibniz-Instituts Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education